Only rural and suburban retards buy manuals, city people all drive auto
Ryan Rogers
>They fell for the German Jew Oy vey Goyim, manual is not allowed on our 40,000 dollar 2 door vehicle. You must get the Auto for 42,000 dollars to cope with our massive horsepower. NO DONT LOOK AT DODGE REEEEE
Nolan Nguyen
NORMIES WIN AGAIN
Jaxon Thomas
>Which is interesting considering the "outdated" gearboxes have been coping with more than that for years now sure manuals can hold more power. but can they hold the power for a car that is being daily driven for hundreds of thousands miles?
Andrew Clark
>Performance arm of a German company switches to better performing transmissions
>people get butthurt because "muh driving feels"
Christian Martinez
>Lexus F autos only >Mercedes AMG autos only >Audi S/RS autos only have been for many years. Not surprising BMW might abandon manuals sooner or later
Oliver Evans
>Which is interesting considering the "outdated" gearboxes have been coping with more than that for years now.
lmao
I wonder how stupid is Peter if he makes such bold claims.
Tyler Garcia
Isn't pretty much every AMG auto nowadays too because 2muchpowa4manuel
Nathaniel Miller
Think physics, is there any reason you can't possibly build a gearbox with the same materials and manufacturing processes between manuals and autos? Especially when what they want to stay is the overcomplicated 10 speed gearboxes with even more points to fail? I mean look at the article, if this goes through even DCT is going the way of the dodo. Remember this is marketing speaking, and that's the only reason they're considering it. They want the options that maximize profit margins on both sales AND maintenence. With a gearbox as complicated as this, a run of the mill third party repair shop won't be able to work on it, you must service it at BMW partners.
Jace Torres
J U S T U S T
First BMW starts selling FWD cars. Now they will start selling M cars with auto only? Where did it all go so wrong?
Liam Green
>They want the options that maximize profit margins on both sales AND maintenence. With a gearbox as complicated as this, a run of the mill third party repair shop won't be able to work on it, you must service it at BMW partners.
true
Aaron Young
>Think physics, is there any reason you can't possibly build a gearbox with the same materials and manufacturing processes between manuals and autos?
Think about the actual differences between an automatic and a manual (specifically gears and coupling) and you'd know that you can't just translate advances of one technology to the other.
Leo Davis
>Which is interesting considering the "outdated" gearboxes have been coping with more than that for years now. Did you read the article you posted? The guy pretty much answers why they don't go with stronger manual transmissions.
>Did you read the article you posted? The guy pretty much answers why they don't go with stronger manual transmissions. can you please give us lazy bitches a quick recap?
Grayson Moore
tl;dr in order to be more appealing to americans, we'll put a retarded planetary transmission on cars that are supposed to be light.
there are no problems with modern dcts, this is just american pr bullshit
Robert Diaz
Last few lines of the article. >"We found they were heavy and the shift quality was awful," he said.
Caleb Baker
ITT: people that could never shift as fast as a DCT complain about a DCT despite wanting to go fast in their car
Andrew Barnes
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Joshua Phillips
oh look it's another autofag who doesn't understand why people buy manuals
Hunter Taylor
Drag racers put far more HP into automatic transmissions. There is no limit on HP if either manual or auto gearbox is designed to take the load, but remember ALL automakers have to take cost into consideration and they are working in an industry where a few dollars per vehicle matters!
Mason Perry
i have nothing wrong with auto's in the hands of normiefags.
Its SPORTS brands like BMW unable to make a decent manual or AUTO gearbox that isnt a unreliable pos and then pretends like the M monkier isnt totally sellout that REALLY fucking pisses me off.
t. 16 year old T56
Oliver Lopez
Pure marketing bullshit imo. He's essentially saying an available option isn't an option because "we don't like it". Also what does he mean with poor shift quality? Shifting precision? Lever accuracy? Because that's not down to how strong the gearbox is. This is a 100% non-answer. And my point still stands: we've been doing this effectively for years, why is it suddenly not good anymore?
Nathan Peterson
Americans are the main market for high-end manual cars though. America buys more automatic economy cars and manual sports cars than Europe, while the European and Asian market for sports cars wants automatics almost exclusively.
Nolan Cook
this
if they where seriously gonna invest in manual they would look at Sequential Shifters
Nolan Gutierrez
>about 450 horsepower (335kW) and 600Nm was more or less the limit of manual-gearbox durability.
sales and marketing guy pretending to have a fucking clue.
BMW uses GM (and ZF) transmissions you fucking retarded flyover
Ryder Wilson
>Abloo bloo bloo manuals are going away
It's because of emissions requirements and automatics have gotten to the point that they're objectively better.
If you want a manual so bad, the used car market is full of them. Go by one and stop crying to Veeky Forums about it.
Matthew Gomez
t. communter
Levi Edwards
i hate faggots like this who suck corporate cock about every stupid decision a company makes
Easton Reed
>>about 450 horsepower (335kW) and 600Nm was more or less the limit of manual-gearbox durability. What? There are tons of cars that are manual with way more power and torque
Benjamin Murphy
Say DCT when you mean DCT and not automatic you drooling apes. Idiots shouldn't be allowed to care about cars.
Thomas Carter
Read the article user, dct is going out as well
Adrian Brooks
Lexus and Merc are more like muscle/GT while Audi is benchracers or cruising on the Autobahn.
Gavin Ward
>false strawmanning
I understand exactly why, dunce. Just know that about 80% of manual folks will take the DCT and keep it moving. How's about you unfuck yourself and do the same.
Jaxon Martin
who cares, just get a m2 with a manual gearbox in some years when their prices drop and never buy a bmw again
Liam Davis
>low reliability cars >high depreciation cars >literally no one ever is interested in acquiring an older BMW of any model for any reason >pipes in fake engine noises >has a shitty gearbox >overweight and regularly beaten on paper and real life performance >1% of market share in US reflects how much of a joke the (((brand))) is >most buyers only buy for a badge and a keychain they can hang outside their JNCO jeans
Pic related, the average bmw kid
Camden White
>every bmw is a base model 3 series you prob drive a corolla lol
Daniel Edwards
>just buy it bro
no
Angel Jackson
DCT is an automatic transmission the same way a CVT is an automatic transmission
>Germany cant into cars t. someone who has not come into contact with an Audi 80
Nathan Murphy
>posts a 20 year old car from the pre VAG days
HAHAHAHAH
Jackson Wood
Hello?
Just because BMW gives everyone a terrible name with their dog shit performance and reliability, does not mean bad cars are made there.
Caleb Gray
Hey man I'm just saying Germans really can (could) create a bulletproof car. Don't know much about newer cars because am poor, but the truth is usually the opposite of what Veeky Forums tells, so I think they're still doing alright.
Alexander Gutierrez
Based as fuck.
BMW is overrated shit anyways. I raced a mint red E46 last year at a stoplight and a 335xi getting on the highway a few months ago and buried that too. My STI only had a 93 octane tune at the time.
I was sitting in traffic next to an M4 and couldnt believe how quiet and shitty it sounded. People actually think these sound good? Holy fuck
Parker Bailey
vag has been absolute shit since the late 90's desu
I guess we will only see dual clutch performance vehicles now. Feels bad man.
And this is why everyone hates city people.
Owen Moore
>this was from a just a couple weeks ago >now they've just outright included M cars in it too LMAO
Kayden Perry
post 90's then
Everything from 00 onwards was haladex style dogshite
Lincoln Jenkins
who gives a shit?
20xx bmw are shit anyway.
Zachary Ross
Thats fucking bullshit.
Dominic Harris
t. a 5'8 manlet absolute joke a cuck
The BMW kids are really pathetic. Half of them do not even know fake engine noises are sent into the cabin. Thats why 90% of their base buy their cars.
Wyatt Sanders
Not him but "fake engine noises"?
Joshua Hall
Well steptronic is still a thing so who gives a shit honestly
Tyler Adams
Even dct is getting the getting the axe.
Imitating a different engine through the speakers. Pic related, Renault, and a lot other brands, are doing it as well
Austin Torres
BMW has such shitty engines that they have recorded engine sounds in MP3 format (not from their engines of course) and have it injected through the speakers passively as gas is injected to make it seem like you are buying a decent car.
Logan Rogers
>avarage merica spotted lol wut.? germany practically build engines for other car brands.
Thomas King
Most people here don't know how autos and manuals actually work. And half the battle is finding a proper clutch set-up that will work for daily driving with +450hp.
FYI Veeky Forums, go look up the difference between a fluid coupling and a ceramic/metallic/organic clutch.
Angel Taylor
That guy looks classy as fuck, I bet he thrusts his penis into all kinds of girls.
Robert Rogers
BMW buys the transmissions from companies like ZF. Currently there are no manual boxes that can handle the power of their new cars AND shift smoothly. They had looked at US manufacturers who have been doing manual in US cars for years but apparently they weren't smooth enough for a luxury sports car and so BMW won't contract with them.
Carter Harris
What is it about bmw that makes some people so assblasted? It might be worth getting one just to trigger autists
Luke Butler
One of the major reasons I got a BMW actually, lmao
Joshua Long
the m2 doesn't do this
Justin Rogers
Lenco. The only acceptable automatic
Charles Fisher
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Adam Kelly
In a world where people go apeshit over a 0.1 seconds difference on a nurburgring lap, ditching the manuals is the only logical solution because the army of fanboys of all other manufacturers will just point and laugh at those few hundredths of a second it will lose for that type of transmission. It's just bad publicity, people don't give a shit about muh feels, they only care about 0-60 times and laptimes.
It could also be that they asked a bunch of gearbox manufacturers to give them better manuals, but they came up with solutions that were legit bad (clutch too heavy, ratios too much/too little spaced together, too much fuel consumption and shit like that) or were simply too expensive compared to the commercial deals they already have in place for other gearboxes.
Or maybe manuals didn't sell well and that's just PR talk so they don't have to admit they lost market because of an outdated tech that none of the direct competitors use anymore.
Are you referring to dogboxes? If yes, have you ever drove one on a car? Do you have an idea of how rough, noisy and generally uncomfortable they are to drive? Remember we are talking about cars that are still supposed to be daily driven, dogboxes are absolutely retarded on anything that is not a track-only machine.
Joseph Hernandez
It isn't corporations mandating emissions standards, you retarded child.
Thomas Foster
Yes, the E39 M5, E46 M3, E60 M5, E9x M3 and 1M are all shit, right?
Daniel Bennett
BMW never service the ZF box transmission fluid. Somehow the fluid is a fluid that defies the laws of physics and never breaks down.
Pretty epic if you ask me.
Leo Smith
You know the new G30 5 series? BMW memed the fact that the new 450hp M550xi is """faster""" than the old M5 (560hp). Obviously they neglected to mention that this was purely from a standing start and with AWD-assisted launch, and only to 60mph, whereafter the F10 M5 will swiftly overtake and leave it in dust.
You know that the G30 M5 is going AWD only? Because according to a BMW markets- I mean engineer, the practical limit of RWD is 600hp before the diminishing returns turn negative for each increased hp.
Lmao. Modern BMW is a fucking joke.
Joshua Harris
Not trying to defend BMW in particular here, but a business has to make money. If they see they can sell more cars by saying it has a faster 0-60 or that it will be AWD, then I don't see what's so terrible about that.
Blame it on the people who buy the cars and set the trends, not on the manufacturers that try to please as many potential customers as they can.
Dominic Rodriguez
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy, m8. Fuel to the fire. A runaway fission of clever marketing leading to motoring Chernobyl.
Colton Fisher
no but BMWs incompetent engineers are too stupid to make a manual transmission car pass emissions
Gabriel Nguyen
Dear America, Please stop fucking up the automotive industry.
Yours truly, Za warudo.
Carter Brooks
>America its the chinks though theres a reason why BMW keeps going 'but the chinese market' every time like in , and theres a reason why the only FWD BMW's are in china currently
Brandon Nelson
Me too m8
*high fives you*
Charles Martin
The industry thinks that combustion engine cars are a sunset industry. They are already gearing up for the eventual take over by EV's and a good chunk of that market will go autonomous. So I can understand why BMW is headed in this direction.
With that said, I'd be buying up every last old manual transmission BMW or sports car I can get my hands on. Especially the fun stuff from the 80's, 90;s.
Owen Gonzalez
As much as I want to care, given that cars like the Viper and ZR1 make roughly 600lbs-ft of torque and hold together fine with a manual, I really don't give a shit about BMW M cars anymore.
The M2 is still pretty good at its price point, but other than that they are all just boring poser-mobiles. They are quite literally everything wrong with the way the automotive industry is headed. 500 modes for everything, shit sounding turbo engines that aren't actually more efficient in the real world, unnecessary weight and size increases, and so on.
People who are crying that they don't offer manuals anymore have kind of missed the point, if you're the kind of person who wants a manual in your car you probably aren't the kind of person who wants a modern M car anyway.
Bentley Powell
I bet this era will be as well liked as smog era 1976-1990
Adam Gray
Sure, I'm positive BMW will get right on having their engineering department design better humans who can always select the most fuel efficient gear and have split second shift times that eliminate all that time revving and burning fuel between shifts.
Or maybe we should stop letting the muh warming crowd call all the shots.
Ethan Butler
>I may have lost the race but at least I drove a manual hurr durr
Andrew Foster
Kek they just don't want to
Christian Green
>I was sitting in traffic next to an M4 and couldnt believe how quiet and shitty it sounded You smell underaged. Fuck off. Some want to live a civilized life and work white-collar jobs where showing up sweaty, unkempt, and spaced out are highly inappropriate.
For you and your japcrap riced out Paul Walker wannabe life, showing up to your shift at the local fastfood hole it's totally fine.